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Lauren Willingham- Show What I Know!


Kinds of Sentences
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  1. Declarative- I am hungry for bananas.
  2. Imperative- Go buy some bananas.
  3. Interrogative- Who ate the last banana?
  4. Exclamatory- Watch out for that banana peel!

Correct a Run-On Sentence

Run-On Sentence: I'm going to bed early I have ballet tomorrow and it makes me tired.
  1. Comma- I going to bed early, I have ballet tomorrow and it makes me tired.
  2. Periods- I going to bed early. I have ballet tomorrow and it makes me tired.shoes.jpg
  3. Subordinating Conjunction- I'm going to bed early because I have ballet tomorrow and it makes me tired.
  4. Semicolon- I'm going to bed early; I have ballet tomorrow and it makes me tired.

Sentence Structure
  1. Simple- Dylan plays Angry Birds.bird.jpg
  2. Compound- Dylan plays Angry Birds, and Ms. Johnston plays Temple Run.
  3. Complex- Dylan plays Angry Birds, although he is not supposed to.
  4. Compound/Complex- Dylan plays Angry Birds and Temple Run, because the teacher allows him to.
Figurative Language
  1. Simile- Madison leaped like a frog.
  2. Metaphor- She was a frog, leaping through the sky.frog.jpg
  3. Hyperbole- Madison, my pet frog, is the size of a bus.
  4. Alliteration- Frogs fly freely from the fog.
  5. Onomatopoeia- BAM!
  6. Personification- The water balloon, a frog in the early morning dew, soared through the dew.
Writing Styles
  1. Absolute- Feet aching, hair flying, the model strutted down the runway.boots.jpg
  2. Adjective Beginning- Tired, the mother of 18 shopped for groceries.
  3. Appositive- Jessie, my dog, chews up my socks daily.
  4. Dash- The girl's hair looked like a helmet- a blonde helmet.
  5. Adverb for Effect- She paced the walkway furiously after finding out about her sister.
  6. Speaker Tag- "I want those boots," Gigi stated as she strutted to her limo.